Jay Tholen

Hi, I'm the lead dev of Dropsy and Hypnospace Outlaw. and I've been working on my website lately! If you enjoy ruminations on indie game dev or digital prog rock/jazz fusion please sign up for the newsletter (scroll 👇 on the home page!) & follow my RSS feed! /!\_,.-~> jaytholen.net <~-.,_/!\

VIRTUE AND A SLEDGEHAMMER 🔴 OUT NOW 🔴 I STILL LOVE YOU MORE THAN I HATE YOU store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/...

HIS NAME IS CALYPSO COOP. A CLASSIC FAUSTIAN DEMON. WHILE IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE BUREAU TO WIN THIS THING, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ARE YOU TO ACCEPT HIS WISH.

twisted metal x twin peaks

Just a reminder to all the indie devs: You can just post a link to your game when you mention it. In fact, attaching a link and thumbnail beneath doesn't even add to the character count. This isn't Twitter. You won't be suffocated in your sleep by the algorithm here. There is no algorithm here.

re: AI game knockoffs, it's nice that the game devs whose work i enjoy most are almost certainly gonna be OK. it's virtually impossible to meaningfully copy them. Lucas Pope or thecatamites or Nifflas or Mason Lindroth or Jack King-Spooner projects are so completely theirs that ya just can't do it.

Today, SWT’s Singles Spotlight shines on Pittsburgh singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist @hplemke.bsky.social . Alex shares why his new album is worth a listen—and why single “The Song of the Summer” stands out. scummywatertower.com/features/sin... #Musicsky

Thanks to Alex from @scummywatertower.bsky.social for the kind write-up. we are now deep into autumn and there has never been a better time for THE AUTUMN TAPE harrisonlemke.bandcamp.com/album/the-au...

I keep coming back to this one, it's got a melancholy vibe all its own. Shame both the animator and musician passed away before it became popular.

im freakin sick of Star Wars and now they have these baby yoga Star Wars pastries in the freaking bakery all the way out here in Germany where nobody has even freakin HEARD of Star Wars, great

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Hypnospace Outlaw is $4.99 on GOG buff.ly/Nzaqbe2 #ad $5.99 US eShop buff.ly/JxkwJC1

It's NES day, and also my 10th wedding anniversary. No I did not plan it that way. If you wanna get me a gift, all I want is for you to watch this if you haven't, it took me 15 years to make.

The Waggon Tracks https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-waggon-tracks

Every Earthbound enemy looks like this

HOW DARE

The first brand-new MST3K episode STING OF DEATH is available right now, immediately, at once, other words to indicate that concept! If you missed it in movie theaters, now’s your chance. You can also order a package of this plus the three next eps in various formats, as they come out. Enjoy!

Been working on Chisel (3D CSG level editor) again now and then. I improved the quality of the CSG implementation a lot using uses exact floating point arithmetic. All black mesa maps can be now imported w/o errors. Chisel now also has 'water' brushes

Seventeen years later… The time has come for Machinarium 2 🦾🔧 Wishlist NOW on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1619280/...

Aw yeah it's back to 1996 on LGR youtu.be/o0wDkCp3Eu4 Checking out the graphics card Sierra On-Line ever sold: the Screamin' 3D! That alone makes it a notable oddity, but it's also a Rendition Verite V1000, which can provide some awesome results!...and a slew of shortcomings and mid-90s quirkiness

a third record store just opened up in Braunschweig and once again they carry no CDs. this is turning me into the joker.

I've been playing this excellent puzzle exploration game over the last few days. Only has 2 reviews so far including mine which is just criminal store.steampowered.com/app/3951360/...

Back in the ’90s, the Flaming Fish community served as one of my chief gateways into the world of Christian industrial and goth music. Revisiting all of these old reviews was a trip down memory lane; I hadn’t thought about bands like Angst, Christian Plumber, or Thymikon in years, if not longer.

hope you like parking lots

Very cool and good episode where we examine animations for Unreleased Hypnospace Outlaw sequel: Dreamsettler! With the artist who made them! Wow!

An update to Fifth's 2.5D Otter Game! Now includes a fishing minigame. Full thread: create-games.com/forum_post.a...

Now LIVE for the public, @organicsuperlube.bsky.social stars in part 1 of our GHOST-TOASTING 136th EPISODE! Featuring an in-depth tour of her work on DREAMSETTLER! Part 2 available now for Flashketeers! Like, share, comment and enjoy! flashinthepancast.com/2026/10/05/e...